Immunological factors in endometriosis-associated reproductive failure: Studies in fertile and infertile women with and without endometriosis

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1794-1799

  Martínez Román, Sergio ^a   Balasch, Juan ^a   Creus, Montserrat ^a   Fábregues, Francisco ^a   Carmona, Francisco ^a   Vilella, Ramón ^a   Vanrell, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Immunology; Infertility; Unexplained infertility

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPERM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 1842329181     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.8.1794     Document Type: Article

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